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A few weeks ago I attended Java One in San Francisco so I could blog about emoze (a client) and got to meet Moshe Dgani one of the 2 creators of emoze.  Moshe was nice enough to spend some time with me and asked if in my blogging I could share some features of emoze that he didn’t think everyone knew about.  I for one didn’t know about many of these and I’ve been using emoze for a while now.

I wrote about some features recently and as promised I’m continuing here with the rest that Moshe talked to me about.

• Add a personalized signature, this is a great feature that I’ve been asked about a few times.  As a side note and I’m only telling you this because you read my blog, Moshe told me a secret. Separate signatures for each email address is coming soon.
• There is a roaming indicator icon to show you if you’re roaming and may get charged additionally for using data.  On Nokia’s it’s right next to the little bow tie icon showing you’re connected to your email in the messaging folder.
• There is a setting where you can decide if you want emoze to show you how many unread messages you have.
• This is a very cool feature, BCC Alert. Follow me here, if you were in the BCC of an email you got and you click reply all, you are warned so you don’t accidentally send something out you shouldn’t.
• emoze supports meeting request responses.  This is a big deal for some people, it gives the user the ability to respond yes, no or maybe to a meeting request.  Also Windows Mobile users can send meeting requests from their phones via emoze.
• One of the nicest features for people who don’t want to be bothered by email on certain days or times of the day is scheduled retrieval.  You can set emoze to only retrieve from 9am to 5pm on weekdays if you desire or configure it any way you would like.  Maybe you don’t want to get your email on the weekends, well so be it now.
• Moshe specifically wanted me to let people know, because he has gotten this question many times.  Checking 4 email address uses basically the same amount of battery as checking 1 email address.  So people should not hesitate to connect all their email address if they are concerned about battery life.

I want to mention something I have read and been told about emoze that I found very interesting myself.  Data usage is very minimal with emoze.  You can save (and this is just an educated estimate I read) about 80% on data by using emoze because of their world class compression methods.  I was told that emoze works via TCP not HTTP so that is one of the data saving techniques.

If you find any of this interesting don’t think twice, go ahead and download emoze and use 1 email address or 1 Facebook ID for free forever.  If you like it though you can get a Pro account for about $13/year (that’s in the US, it may vary in your country).  With a Pro account you can collect messages from multiple email and Facebook accounts.  Head out to www.emoze.com on your handset (almost all Java enabled phones and smart phones are supported by emoze), download it and give it a spin.  If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me via the comments below, at Jeb@emoze.com or on Twitter at @JebBrilliant or @emozepushemail.